They just get excuses.

It's much easier than dealing with collecting actual checks, and minimizes the excuse of "it got lost in the mail". 

Apparently he was ignorant of the IRS rules... which is not an excuse, you must know the rules, they are pretty straight forward.

Not being able to take time off work is a lame excuse.

IF you are willing and able to invest the years of time, effort, and money and IF you are able to perfect your systems and get a good team in place, then at that point it can be profitable and passive, but understand that those are a LOT of IFs ... you need to go in with eyes wide open to this fact, and not expecting it to be like buying a stock or a bond ... and no, buying turnkey does not excuse you from the necessity to do this, because the turnkey company's systems are optimized to maximize THEIR profit, and not necessarily YOURS.

Most people would have given up or just used that as an excuse to not get started.

@Geordy Rostad not super set in what escalation clause is so excuse me if I’m wrong but is that when there is essentially a cap a buyer can set they will pay X amount and if someone offers more, they will pay More than that amount also?

He only learned of it when neighbors complained that they saw at least 10 -15 people living there so my dad requested an inspection, which they made excuses why he couldn't get in.

Well I'm finally running out of excuses for why I should wait to get my investing career started.

I made every excuse not to make the offer.